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Microsoft Loses Big In MP3 Patent Suit: $1.52 Billion Penalty Could Be Harbinger

Date: February 22, 2007

Author: Alan Sipress

QUOTE: The company [Alcatel-Lucent] successfully argued that Microsoft infringed on the patents by including the digital music technology in its Windows operating system starting in 1998. The same technology later was used in Microsoft's Windows Media Player and is included in the Windows Vista operating system, which was released to the public last month.

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• Alcatel (Compagnie Financière Alcatel)
• AT&T
• Lucent Technologies
• Microsoft Corporation
• Thomson Technology (Thomson
• US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)
• Washington Post Newspaper

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• Computers & Information Technology
  • Software (general)

• Law & Justice
  • Civil Law / Common Law
    • Intellectual Property (conceptual)
      • Licensing
      • Patents / Inventions

• Media & Journalism
  • Media Industry Issues
    • Music Industry

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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